Andre Simon Lectures

Each year, in memory of its co-founder André L Simon, the society asks a person of distinction within the world of wine and food to speak to an audience of assembled members on a specialist food and wine subject of their choice.

To read your chosen lecture please click on the speaker's name in the table below, to open the document. The lecture given by Michael Broadbent MW was the inaugural André L Simon Memorial Lecture given at Christie's, London on Monday October 18th, 1971 (with the Foreword by Hugh Johnson OBE).